Kabul: One year later Taliban acquisition of AfghanistanSenior UN official in the country, Resident Coordinator Ramiz Alkabarovdescribed her fear for the lives of girls and called on women to play a full role in reviving the Afghan economy.
Rights groups say the Taliban have broken several promises to respect human rights and women’s rights since taking over Afghanistan a year ago. Since the capture of Kabul in August last year, Taliban officials have imposed severe restrictions on the rights of women and girls.
“Shortly before the Taliban takeover in 2021, I visited an orphanage in Kunduz, a city in the north of Afghanistan. When I spoke there with a young girl who had lost her entire family the day before , so my heart was broken. The Afghan National Security Forces and the Taliban,” Ramizo said. alkabarovWith the Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan united nations aid mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
Since then, Alkabarov said these challenges have grown exponentially and efforts to create a stable future for children like the one I met in Kunduz last year have become more demanding.
“From hunger to chronic poverty, the scale of suffering in Afghanistan has been rising in many areas since the Taliban advanced into Kabul last summer,” he said.
More than half of the country’s population is now living below the poverty line. About 23 million people are food insecure, many of them severely, and more than two million children suffer from malnutrition. In June 2022, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the central region of Afghanistan, killing more than 1,000 people and pushing already vulnerable communities to the brink.
“I am particularly concerned about Afghan women and girls, whose lives have changed since the Taliban returned to power last summer. Since August 15, 2021, we have made a significant contribution to their economic, political and social rights. There has been a withdrawal and a worrying increase in restrictive gender policies and practices,” he said.
Women now find themselves marginalized without the right to education, work and freedom of movement, he said.
According to a new analysis by UNICEF, keeping girls out of secondary school costs 2.5 percent of Afghanistan’s annual GDP. If the current group of 3 million girls is able to complete their secondary education and participate in the job market, girls and women will contribute at least $5.4 billion to Afghanistan’s economy, the UN agency said.
UNICEF’s estimates do not take into account the non-financial effects of denying girls access to education, such as the ensuing shortage of female teachers, doctors and nurses, reduced attendance of girls in primary school, and health costs related to teen pregnancy. Increase .
The estimates also do not account for the wider benefits of education, including overall educational attainment, reduced child marriages and reduced infant mortality.
Rights groups say the Taliban have broken several promises to respect human rights and women’s rights since taking over Afghanistan a year ago. Since the capture of Kabul in August last year, Taliban officials have imposed severe restrictions on the rights of women and girls.
“Shortly before the Taliban takeover in 2021, I visited an orphanage in Kunduz, a city in the north of Afghanistan. When I spoke there with a young girl who had lost her entire family the day before , so my heart was broken. The Afghan National Security Forces and the Taliban,” Ramizo said. alkabarovWith the Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan united nations aid mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
Since then, Alkabarov said these challenges have grown exponentially and efforts to create a stable future for children like the one I met in Kunduz last year have become more demanding.
“From hunger to chronic poverty, the scale of suffering in Afghanistan has been rising in many areas since the Taliban advanced into Kabul last summer,” he said.
More than half of the country’s population is now living below the poverty line. About 23 million people are food insecure, many of them severely, and more than two million children suffer from malnutrition. In June 2022, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the central region of Afghanistan, killing more than 1,000 people and pushing already vulnerable communities to the brink.
“I am particularly concerned about Afghan women and girls, whose lives have changed since the Taliban returned to power last summer. Since August 15, 2021, we have made a significant contribution to their economic, political and social rights. There has been a withdrawal and a worrying increase in restrictive gender policies and practices,” he said.
Women now find themselves marginalized without the right to education, work and freedom of movement, he said.
According to a new analysis by UNICEF, keeping girls out of secondary school costs 2.5 percent of Afghanistan’s annual GDP. If the current group of 3 million girls is able to complete their secondary education and participate in the job market, girls and women will contribute at least $5.4 billion to Afghanistan’s economy, the UN agency said.
UNICEF’s estimates do not take into account the non-financial effects of denying girls access to education, such as the ensuing shortage of female teachers, doctors and nurses, reduced attendance of girls in primary school, and health costs related to teen pregnancy. Increase .
The estimates also do not account for the wider benefits of education, including overall educational attainment, reduced child marriages and reduced infant mortality.